1888 in the United States

Governors .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- Governor of Alabama: Thomas Seay (Democratic) Governor of Arkansas: Simon Pollard Hughes Jr. (Democratic) Governor of California: Robert Waterman (Republican) Governor of Colorado: Alva Adams (Democratic) Governor of Connecticut: Phineas C. Lounsbury (Republican) Governor of Delaware: Benjamin T. Biggs (Democratic) Governor of Florida: Edward A. Perry (Democratic) Governor of Georgia: John B. Gordon (Democratic) Governor of Illinois: Richard J. Oglesby (Republican) Governor of Indiana: Isaac P. Gray (Democratic) Governor of Iowa: William Larrabee (Republican) Governor of Kansas: John A. Martin (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: Simon B. Buckner (Democratic) Governor of Louisiana: Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic) (until May 20), Francis T. Nicholls (Democratic) (starting May 20) Governor of Maine: Sebastian Streeter Marble (Republican) Governor of Maryland: Henry Lloyd (Democratic) (until January 11), Elihu Emory Jackson (Democratic) (starting January 11) Governor of Massachusetts: Oliver Ames (Republican) Governor of Michigan: Cyrus G. Luce (Republican) Governor of Minnesota: Andrew R. McGill (Republican) Governor of Mississippi: Robert Lowry (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: Albert P. Morehouse (Democratic) Governor of Nebraska: John Milton Thayer (Republican) Governor of Nevada: Charles C. Stevenson (Republican) Governor of New Hampshire: Charles H. Sawyer (Republican) Governor of New Jersey: Robert Stockton Green (Democratic) Governor of New York: David B. Hill (Democratic) Governor of North Carolina: Alfred Moore Scales (Democratic) Governor of Ohio: Joseph B. Foraker (Republican) Governor of Oregon: Sylvester Pennoyer (Democratic) Governor of Pennsylvania: James A. Beaver (Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: John W. Davis (Democratic) (until May 29), Royal C. Taft (Republican) (starting May 29) Governor of South Carolina: John Peter Richardson III (Democratic) Governor of Tennessee: Robert Love Taylor (Democratic) Governor of Texas: Lawrence Sullivan Ross (Democratic) Governor of Vermont: Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (Republican) (until October 4), William P. Dillingham (Republican) (starting October 4) Governor of Virginia: Fitzhugh Lee (Democratic) Governor of West Virginia: Emanuel Willis Wilson (Democratic) Governor of Wisconsin: Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican) Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of California: Stephen M. White (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Norman H. Meldrum (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: James L. Howard (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Milton H. Mabry (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John Smith (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Robert S. Robertson/Alonzo G. Smith (Republican/Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John A. T. Hull (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Alexander P. Riddle (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James William Bryan (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Clay Knobloch (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), James Jeffries (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: John Q. A. Brackett (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: James H. MacDonald (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Albert E. Rice (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: G. D. Shands (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Hibbard H. Shedd (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Henry C. Davis (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Samuel W. Chubbuck (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward F. Jones (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Charles M. Stedman (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Silas A. Conrad (Republican) (until January 9), William C. Lyon (Republican) (starting January 9) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: William T. Davies (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Samuel R. Honey (political party unknown) (until May 29), Enos Lapham (political party unknown) (starting May 29) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William L. Mauldin (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Z. W. Ewing (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Thomas B. Wheeler (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Levi K. Fuller (Republican) (until October 4), Urban A. Woodbury (Republican) (starting October 4) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: John Edward "Parson" Massey (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: George W. Ryland (Republican)